Originally Posted by mordwyr

The step-dad was a nightmare. And he kept all his vileness a secret from my mom. He would turn on the porn only after she left, and he raped my sister for years. I didn't know this until we were adults, and she just broke down and told me. I think her abuse at his hands led her to play that game with us...she was confused, broken, and everything else.

For me it was great fun at the time, but now I understand why it happened.

My sister went on to become a crack-addicted stripper. She's doing better now, though. No longer an addict, has settled down. But she's never faced her demons as far as I can tell. Just buried everything way down.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.